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Taco Bell rethinks AI order bots — because they don’t work (pivot-to-ai.com)
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and Rime Labs does digital blackface

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSD6-Nf1fg0&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250830-taco-bell-rethinks-ai-order-bots-because-they-dont-work - podcast

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[–] chaos@beehaw.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The hack to get past the bot at Taco Bell is to ask for 18,000 cups of water. This gets you a human.

To be fair, I interacted with one of these and you can also use the hack of saying "give me a human being" at the start.